Solomon Low
Life
- 1782Born9 Apr 1782
Boxford VR pp. 59-60.
documentedproven - 1861Died3 Apr 1861compiledprobable
Family
- Father
- Nathan Lowdocumentedproven
- Mother
- Lucy Lorddocumentedproven
Pedigree
Notes
Gen. Solomon Lowe of Boxford, who inherited the homestead under his father’s will of 1803 and was its executor. General of the Second Brigade, Second Division, Massachusetts militia, from September 1820 to April 1840; representative for Boxford in 1823, 1827, 1828 and 1841; he gave the bell of the East Parish meeting house, and married four times (Perley, History of Boxford).
Perley (Dwellings of Boxford, p. 48): “He died April 3, 1861, lacking six days of being eighty years old. The remains of General Lowe repose in his tomb in Harmony Cemetery. Upon the face of the tomb are illustrations of himself and … wives engraved on marble tablets.” The tomb “has attracted many visitors, because of the pictures of himself and his four wives” (History, p. 359). His son Major William Lowe “died in 1870, from injuries caused by a bull which attacked him in his cowyard,” and the buildings “were completely destroyed by fire early on the morning of June 21, 1874.”
Open questions
- A photograph of the tomb and its engraved portraits, Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford.
Mollie's typescript
He lived in the old John Hale house at Boxford known as the Low Mansion, where his grandchildren lived until it burned in 1874; Mollie says Dolly Wood was one of his many wives.
their son Solomon Low afterwards lived in this house, known as the Low Mansion; Solomon's grandchildren lived there until the house was destroyed by fire 1874
p. 79 →
Checked against the records
- ProvenNathan and Lucy Low lived in John Hale's house, the Low Mansion
Perley's History of Boxford agrees, except the date: John Hale "built the late ancient Low mansion about 1750." It came to Nathan Low about 1772 and stayed in the family until Major William Low, Solomon's son, died in 1870 after a bull attacked him. The buildings burned on 21 June 1874.
Read it in the book, p. 79 →
Connections
- In his ancestry
- 11 notable connections →
Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Solomon's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.